Thanks! My forum-self is old enough to drive now, I guess.
16 years is a long time, incredible really. I’ve been here since 2014 but I think anybody pre 2013 is a Gold Standard OG. Congrats on the milestone, theymos. Here’s to many more years at the wheel of bitcointalk.
theymos registered the account on February 09, 2010 and 16 years is a time since his account registration while it took him a little months for becoming a forum admin first, and later become a forum head admin.
The story of how I became head admin is actually pretty boring. Moderators were needed, so I was made a global moderator. Then admins were needed, so I was made an admin. Then over time the other admins slowly lost interest and resigned until I was the only one left. I guess most of the people who were around here to see this have more-or-less left the community now. That's a bit sad.
It's not entirely clear, but for simplicity I usually say that I became head admin at the beginning of 2011, a little over a year after the forum was created.
It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.
- I was made a forum admin in 2011, after Satoshi left. (Silk Road also appeared after Satoshi left.)
